Don Atungisa

President Yoweri Museveni has urged Ugandans to engage in modern profit-oriented agriculture so as to get rid of household poverty. He noted that whereas Uganda continues to develop under the National Resistance Movement Government, the presence of poverty in the majority of the households in the country poses a big

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has advised farmers in the cattle corridor districts to embrace agriculture mechanisation to mitigate effects of climate change.
This, the President said during the handover of 40 tractors and pasture seeds to farmers' clusters at Mbarara Zonal Agricultural Research Development Institute in Ruharo.
The tractors and the pasture

As Uganda joined the rest of the world to acknowledge women’s contributions to workplace, families and societies at large, Eskom Uganda dedicated the day for its female staff members to reach out to an orphanage home in Njeru.
With this year’s theme being “Be Bold for Change” Eskom female staff visited

President Yoweri Museveni has described the late Joash Mayanja Nkangi, former Minister of Finance and also Buganda Katikkiro, as a great man who served his country for a long time.
The President made the remarks yesterday in Ntinda’s Ministers’ village where he was accompanied by the first Lady, Janet Museveni, to

President Yoweri Museveni who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda’s People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), on Wednesday commissioned 6 Officer Cadets to the rank of Second Lieutenant.
He welcomed them into the regular service of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces. This was during the Army Council meeting held at State House,

President Yoweri Museveni has called on leaders at all levels to take the campaign of sensitizing the masses against violence on women and girls to the grassroots saying that without the campaign to the most affected, the good legislation and the empowerment programmes will remain on paper.
“With sensitization, you need

President Yoweri Museveni has overseen the safe handover of 125 Sudanese prisoners of war, to the Khartoum Government, who had been previously captured by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North rebel fighters.
Speaking before the former captives and a high profile delegation at State House, Entebbe, yesterday, the President expressed gratitude to

New and simplified methods of collecting tax in Kampala City are yielding increased revenue. In just two years, tax collections rose by 20% by end of the fiscal year 2015/2016. Just like any other city, the cost of maintaining and providing quality services to an urban population of over 4

Makerere University research fellow, Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been summoned to police to answer and record statements for offensive communication and cyber harassment.
Dr. Nyanzi who recently returned to Makerere University following a decision by the university appointments board to formally end her suspension is expected to report to Criminal Investigations

The Uganda Christian University (UCU) has halted her annual tuition fees increments, The Tower Post has learnt.
The development was revealed by the UCU Vice Chancellor Rev. Canon. Dr. John Senyonyi during the sixth part of the university’s 17th graduation ceremony on Friday.
“Over a year ago, the University council took a decision